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C. H. BAYLEY. SIGN.

` No. 432,968. Patented July 29, 1890.

0 II O UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BAYLEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SIGN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,968, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed January 28, 1890. Serial No. 338.369. (No model.)

To all whom 't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BAYLEY, of Boston, County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Rotatable Signs for Street- Cars, of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts. e

This invention has for its object to provide a street-car with a rotatable illuminable sign adapted to be lighted by electricity.

In accordance with my invention a frane having glass or translucent or transparent sides is mounted upon a street-car so as to be rotated when desired, to thereby bring to the front a side containing the name of the street or district or destination of the car, or to convey by letters or Words other information. One of the jonrnals of this frane is hollow, and through it is led the necessary wires to enable an incandescent lamp to be energized or lighted.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination, with a revolvin g frane-like sign having a hollow journal, of an incandescent electric lamp, the wires leading to the larnp being passed through the said hollow journal, substantially as will be described.

Figure 1 in side elevation represents a sign embodyng my invention; Fig. 2, a section in the line m; Fig. 3, an end view looking at the u sign from the left in Fig. l..

lucent sides c c, on which will, in practice, be displayed, by suitable letters or characters, the legend to be told by the sign, as a street or name, these sides being adapted by usual means to be slid out and into`the grooves for receiving theni whenever desired. The journal a' ot' the hollow sign is hollow, and as shown is fixed in or with relation to the stand B, and the journal has a novable collar a held in place by a set-screw 2, the said collar acting against a Washer or plate (0 at that end of the sign, Whereas the journal a which rotates, is connected to the plate b,

which is fixed to the cage.

As hei-ein shown, the incandescent lamp is attached to the inner end of the journal a', which is extended into the said sign as far as desired, preferably to about the center of its length.

The wires 'd d, to energize the usual filament in the lanp, are carried through the hollow journal a'.

The lamp is accessible by partially withdrawing one of the sides of the sign or by opening a part ot the sign in any desired way.

I claim- The rotatable illuminable sign having a hollow journal, combined with an incandescent electric lanp located within the said sign, and with wires leading thereto through the said journal, substantially as described.

In testinony Whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CIIARLES H. BAYLEY.

\Vitnesses:

A. S. WIEGAND, BERNICE J. NoYEs. 

